[Clinical aspects of diagnosis and treatment of aneurysms of the splenic artery].
Literature data and original clinical evidence are reviewed concerning diagnostic and treatment aspects of splenic artery aneurysms (SAA). Five cases of aneurysms of the splenic artery trunk in 4 females and 1 male aged 23-54 are described. There was a case of a false SAA due to previous abdominal trauma and consequent pancreatitis. In another case SAA combined with cavernous hepatic hemangioma. Portal hypertension resultant from hepatic cirrhosis was seen in 3 out of 5 SAA cases. Two patients underwent embolization of the artery trunk proximally from SAA, three patients--ligation of the splenic artery with removal of the SAA and the spleen. Current methods of investigation are believed capable of SAA diagnosis before fatal complications, with differential approach to SAA evaluation warranting definition of surgical treatment scope.
Granov
A M
AM
Polysalov
V N
VN
Tarazov
P G
PG
Saĭkin
V Kh
VKh
D000328:Adult; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013157:Splenic Artery
Klinicheskie aspekty diagnostiki i lecheniia anevrizm selezenochnoĭ arterii.